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Last week, Jonathan talked about being burnt out in EverQuest II in his latest Norrathian Stride column. It got Bradford thinking: when he gets burnt out on the genre or a game in general, he has a go-to that is always installed. Do you have a go-to game or genre when you feel burnt out on an MMO?

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seshses

I think board gamse and video games mix perfectly when your burnt out , what i do most of the time is have a major game i play daily and 2 other lower or smaller games too fill in .

Akemie

Here's the thing. It has always been WoW. When WoW Classic came out, that was it for me. I hung up retail and never looked back. WoW Classic is like home. My favorite expansion is the Burning Crusade. But then Blizzard managed to destroy any enthusiasm I had for the game by offering character boosts for TBC! Are you kidding me? Classic is now becoming Retail. I need a new or an old game to give me that connected feeling again. My man and I have not played a game since they announced TBC will have boosts. Those boosts will give decent gear, a mount, money, and other perks. We are gamers and WoW has always been the game we gone back too. What happens when that comfy game crushes joy for gaming.

Theocritus

When I start to burn out, I usually just go looking for a new game....Once in awhile I'll jump on a game from the past, but its usually after a good 2-3 year break.

ShankTheTank

“I know friends who can just focus on one game for months straight and never getting bored or mentally tired of the same game”

Me. Bradford is talking about me

GreenSage39

I always go back to SWTOR. I think my longest stint away was 7 months lol.

Kyleran

ShankTheTank said:

“I know friends who can just focus on one game for months straight and never getting bored or mentally tired of the same game”

Me. Bradford is talking about me

Would be the same for me as well,  the idea of bouncing around multiple games isn't  really comprehensible, would be like reading 5 or 6 books at the same time....

No, I finish one, move to the next, same with games. 

Scot

ShankTheTank said:

“I know friends who can just focus on one game for months straight and never getting bored or mentally tired of the same game”



Me. Bradford is talking about me

Same here and I know Kyleran likes to finish solo games to death too. MMORPG's are trickier as long term some staleness will set in when playing for a couple for years. I take a break, two to 6 months depending on how long I have been in the same MMO.

AugustusG

LOL if it isen't actually my curent one.

Sovrath

If the game is good I stick with it for as long as it has content. Probably why I've played the Elder Scrolls games for years and years.

Heck, I've done Baldur's gate and Neverwinter Nights for years as well.

Every game has it's own life. Shooters might not be as long for me and puzzle games have a sort of built in lifespan as once you solve it you solve it.

Iselin

I just re-installed Skyrim on Saturday, so yes I have those games.

I would put the Mass Effect games in that category too since I go back and replay them every couple of years.

xpsync

I used to be a pinball, spent several years in that machine bouncing from new shiny to newer shiny to the newest shiny.

Last few years i returned to my roots, two mmorpg's and that's it. The reason was once to have something to do when a server was down.

Now, it's also there to help prevent burnout.

However since late BFA wow has been keeping me busy af and haven't much time to play SWG:L much, but as time goes by that only makes my craving to play the absolute f'ing shit outta SWG even stronger.

There is just way too much to do in wow, its gotta grand master hold on me, walking away from an mmorpg for well over a decade can pay off, plus meeting the right peeps is huge.

ashiru_1978

Akemie said:

Here's the thing. It has always been WoW. When WoW Classic came out, that was it for me. I hung up retail and never looked back. WoW Classic is like home. My favorite expansion is the Burning Crusade. But then Blizzard managed to destroy any enthusiasm I had for the game by offering character boosts for TBC! Are you kidding me? Classic is now becoming Retail. I need a new or an old game to give me that connected feeling again. My man and I have not played a game since they announced TBC will have boosts. Those boosts will give decent gear, a mount, money, and other perks. We are gamers and WoW has always been the game we gone back too. What happens when that comfy game crushes joy for gaming.

Just play on a private server.

I thought Vanilla Classic was going to be the best place to play Vanilla, I subscribed for a couple of months, played probably one month and then closed my Blizzard account, it just isn't worth it. Private servers offer literally the same experience, but at least you don't waste good money on it.

If you want to play WoW so bad, find a good private server and play there, no sweat off your back. Forget Activision B, they are no longer Blizzard who made great games and cared to make their player base happy, they are just after the quickest, easiest money and all their developers that possess some signs of competence and talent are leaving them one by one, Activision B are left with clueless and incompetent interns and most of their gaming development is outsourced to games in Southeast Asia. Warcraft 3 Reforget was made by a Lemon Sky Studios, who are based in Malaysia.

Akemie

ashiru_1978 said:

Akemie said:

Here's the thing. It has always been WoW. When WoW Classic came out, that was it for me. I hung up retail and never looked back. WoW Classic is like home. My favorite expansion is the Burning Crusade. But then Blizzard managed to destroy any enthusiasm I had for the game by offering character boosts for TBC! Are you kidding me? Classic is now becoming Retail. I need a new or an old game to give me that connected feeling again. My man and I have not played a game since they announced TBC will have boosts. Those boosts will give decent gear, a mount, money, and other perks. We are gamers and WoW has always been the game we gone back too. What happens when that comfy game crushes joy for gaming.

Just play on a private server.



I thought Vanilla Classic was going to be the best place to play Vanilla, I subscribed for a couple of months, played probably one month and then closed my Blizzard account, it just isn't worth it. Private servers offer literally the same experience, but at least you don't waste good money on it.



If you want to play WoW so bad, find a good private server and play there, no sweat off your back. Forget Activision B, they are no longer Blizzard who made great games and cared to make their player base happy, they are just after the quickest, easiest money and all their developers that possess some signs of competence and talent are leaving them one by one, Activision B are left with clueless and incompetent interns and most of their gaming development is outsourced to games in Southeast Asia. Warcraft 3 Reforget was made by a Lemon Sky Studios, who are based in Malaysia.

My man and I downloaded lotro last night and playing that. Loved all the movies! I actually find the graphics pleasing to look at. My man and I are pretty excited to play. Plan is to explore, follow the lore, and chill.

Scorchien

As I have kept my sub running for 24 years now to Ultima Online , i believe it would be UO .

Grym

1. Mount & Blade: Warband (now it's Bannerlord)
2. Endless Space 2
3. Any number of isometric fantasy RPGs (Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Pathfinder, Pillars of Eternity (1&2).

Homura235

GreenSage39 said:

I always go back to SWTOR. I think my longest stint away was 7 months lol.

Definitely SWTOR for me, too. I can always go back and it feels familiar because, well, it's Star Wars. And there was a time when tab-targeting felt old and clunky, but as the years have gone by it is now nostalgic, familiar and even fun and challenging.

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jloost-gamer

If I burn out on a game by playing too much, or if a game is just so hard that I have tried a boss battle, let's say 30 times, and can't get past it which frustrates me to no end, then I always go back to the same: Game Boy games from my childhood.

I have a GBA SP somewhere in a closet and I take it out from time to time when this happens. I pop in a game I know by heart (The Hobbit, Pokémon FireRed, Shrek Swamp Cart Racing) or just Tetris, because it relaxes me so much.

If I really get burned out on gaming in general (usually when I play more than 4-5 hours on a day), I'll get back to reading, which I also do a lot, or watch a film or series.

EDIT: I think the change of screen also has something to do with it, maybe?

Aurelt

ashiru_1978 said:

Akemie said:

Here's the thing. It has always been WoW. When WoW Classic came out, that was it for me. I hung up retail and never looked back. WoW Classic is like home. My favorite expansion is the Burning Crusade. But then Blizzard managed to destroy any enthusiasm I had for the game by offering character boosts for TBC! Are you kidding me? Classic is now becoming Retail. I need a new or an old game to give me that connected feeling again. My man and I have not played a game since they announced TBC will have boosts. Those boosts will give decent gear, a mount, money, and other perks. We are gamers and WoW has always been the game we gone back too. What happens when that comfy game crushes joy for gaming.

Just play on a private server.



I thought Vanilla Classic was going to be the best place to play Vanilla, I subscribed for a couple of months, played probably one month and then closed my Blizzard account, it just isn't worth it. Private servers offer literally the same experience, but at least you don't waste good money on it.



If you want to play WoW so bad, find a good private server and play there, no sweat off your back. Forget Activision B, they are no longer Blizzard who made great games and cared to make their player base happy, they are just after the quickest, easiest money and all their developers that possess some signs of competence and talent are leaving them one by one, Activision B are left with clueless and incompetent interns and most of their gaming development is outsourced to games in Southeast Asia. Warcraft 3 Reforget was made by a Lemon Sky Studios, who are based in Malaysia.

what? people still play wow on private servers because of money? lol. private servers are not stable and you never know if they get closed or not or viped. I though people played wow on private servers because there was not classic on retail. I think blizzard themself don't know that private servers still exist. I will try to find the popular ones and report them and send it to blizzard to close them

Politicaldad

EQ-EMU p99 .... it's as close to EQ as I can get without all the 9 million stat-laden gear drops

SW:G-EMU .... The only way I can play my BE ... I love making pets

ashiru_1978

Aurelt said:

ashiru_1978 said:

Akemie said:

Here's the thing. It has always been WoW. When WoW Classic came out, that was it for me. I hung up retail and never looked back. WoW Classic is like home. My favorite expansion is the Burning Crusade. But then Blizzard managed to destroy any enthusiasm I had for the game by offering character boosts for TBC! Are you kidding me? Classic is now becoming Retail. I need a new or an old game to give me that connected feeling again. My man and I have not played a game since they announced TBC will have boosts. Those boosts will give decent gear, a mount, money, and other perks. We are gamers and WoW has always been the game we gone back too. What happens when that comfy game crushes joy for gaming.

Just play on a private server.





I thought Vanilla Classic was going to be the best place to play Vanilla, I subscribed for a couple of months, played probably one month and then closed my Blizzard account, it just isn't worth it. Private servers offer literally the same experience, but at least you don't waste good money on it.





If you want to play WoW so bad, find a good private server and play there, no sweat off your back. Forget Activision B, they are no longer Blizzard who made great games and cared to make their player base happy, they are just after the quickest, easiest money and all their developers that possess some signs of competence and talent are leaving them one by one, Activision B are left with clueless and incompetent interns and most of their gaming development is outsourced to games in Southeast Asia. Warcraft 3 Reforget was made by a Lemon Sky Studios, who are based in Malaysia.

what? people still play wow on private servers because of money? lol. private servers are not stable and you never know if they get closed or not or viped. I though people played wow on private servers because there was not classic on retail. I think blizzard themself don't know that private servers still exist. I will try to find the popular ones and report them and send it to blizzard to close them

You were wrong, people don't play only because a certain version of an MMO is present, some just don't wish to pay at all. When Vanilla Classic launched in 2019, one Vanilla server outright shut down so it doesn't interfere with Classic, but the rest of the servers retained 80% of their populations. As Vanilla Classic became stale, these private servers got a boost of players.

What's more is that private servers in some cases have nicer and less toxic communities than official servers. It's true that they can get shut down at any time and sometimes the admins run gold selling scams and whatnot, but that's not why people play or avoid playing it, since they are private and can shut down at any point, people aren't that attached to their characters and are OK with starting over as many times as needed. There will never be one private server to end all private servers.

Another reason to want to play Vanilla private servers over Activision B. servers is because all the bots are on the official servers and you're more likely to have a better experience on the private server. What you're saying about private servers not being stable is a myth. 99% of WoW private servers running Vanilla, TBC and WoTLK are absolutely stable and all content works just fine on them as there are more than 10 years of work done on those cores. Vanilla and WoTLK are the most stable and working private servers you can find.

I'm not here to advertise private servers and try and sway people to play on private servers than the real thing, just clearing some myths and misconceptions that private servers are somehow inferior. In some cases they are superior to the real ones. In case of F2P Asian MMOs, like Aura Kingdom, Eden Eternal, Forsaken World, Perfect World, Lineage 2 and others, the private servers are better, because the P2W has been removed from the game. One private server for Riders of Icarus is actually better than the official one, because it has zero P2W and is a few patches/expansions ahead of the official server making the official one look like a joke.

In short some people play private servers, because they can't afford to pay for the real deal or refuse to do so knowing there are free alternatives, others prefer private servers, because they are just better than the official one. For example there is one Vanilla WoW PvE private server, which adds custom content on top of the base game - new races, professions, quests, etc. and it's actually what Vanilla+ would have been, it's one of the reasons for people to prefer a private server over the live one as it offer more and unique content, in case you're bored with the default one.

Aurelt

ashiru_1978 said:

Aurelt said:

ashiru_1978 said:

Akemie said:

Here's the thing. It has always been WoW. When WoW Classic came out, that was it for me. I hung up retail and never looked back. WoW Classic is like home. My favorite expansion is the Burning Crusade. But then Blizzard managed to destroy any enthusiasm I had for the game by offering character boosts for TBC! Are you kidding me? Classic is now becoming Retail. I need a new or an old game to give me that connected feeling again. My man and I have not played a game since they announced TBC will have boosts. Those boosts will give decent gear, a mount, money, and other perks. We are gamers and WoW has always been the game we gone back too. What happens when that comfy game crushes joy for gaming.

Just play on a private server.







I thought Vanilla Classic was going to be the best place to play Vanilla, I subscribed for a couple of months, played probably one month and then closed my Blizzard account, it just isn't worth it. Private servers offer literally the same experience, but at least you don't waste good money on it.







If you want to play WoW so bad, find a good private server and play there, no sweat off your back. Forget Activision B, they are no longer Blizzard who made great games and cared to make their player base happy, they are just after the quickest, easiest money and all their developers that possess some signs of competence and talent are leaving them one by one, Activision B are left with clueless and incompetent interns and most of their gaming development is outsourced to games in Southeast Asia. Warcraft 3 Reforget was made by a Lemon Sky Studios, who are based in Malaysia.

what? people still play wow on private servers because of money? lol. private servers are not stable and you never know if they get closed or not or viped. I though people played wow on private servers because there was not classic on retail. I think blizzard themself don't know that private servers still exist. I will try to find the popular ones and report them and send it to blizzard to close them

You were wrong, people don't play only because a certain version of an MMO is present, some just don't wish to pay at all. When Vanilla Classic launched in 2019, one Vanilla server outright shut down so it doesn't interfere with Classic, but the rest of the servers retained 80% of their populations. As Vanilla Classic became stale, these private servers got a boost of players.



What's more is that private servers in some cases have nicer and less toxic communities than official servers. It's true that they can get shut down at any time and sometimes the admins run gold selling scams and whatnot, but that's not why people play or avoid playing it, since they are private and can shut down at any point, people aren't that attached to their characters and are OK with starting over as many times as needed. There will never be one private server to end all private servers.



Another reason to want to play Vanilla private servers over Activision B. servers is because all the bots are on the official servers and you're more likely to have a better experience on the private server. What you're saying about private servers not being stable is a myth. 99% of WoW private servers running Vanilla, TBC and WoTLK are absolutely stable and all content works just fine on them as there are more than 10 years of work done on those cores. Vanilla and WoTLK are the most stable and working private servers you can find.



I'm not here to advertise private servers and try and sway people to play on private servers than the real thing, just clearing some myths and misconceptions that private servers are somehow inferior. In some cases they are superior to the real ones. In case of F2P Asian MMOs, like Aura Kingdom, Eden Eternal, Forsaken World, Perfect World, Lineage 2 and others, the private servers are better, because the P2W has been removed from the game. One private server for Riders of Icarus is actually better than the official one, because it has zero P2W and is a few patches/expansions ahead of the official server making the official one look like a joke.



In short some people play private servers, because they can't afford to pay for the real deal or refuse to do so knowing there are free alternatives, others prefer private servers, because they are just better than the official one. For example there is one Vanilla WoW PvE private server, which adds custom content on top of the base game - new races, professions, quests, etc. and it's actually what Vanilla+ would have been, it's one of the reasons for people to prefer a private server over the live one as it offer more and unique content, in case you're bored with the default one.

yeah I'm not going to read all that. private servers are illegal and that's that. no need any paragraphs. I'll spam reports on those servers with my guild. as much as possible. just because. if you don't want retail you don't need wow at all. bottom line.

Kyleran

Aurelt said:

ashiru_1978 said:

Aurelt said:

ashiru_1978 said:

Akemie said:

Here's the thing. It has always been WoW. When WoW Classic came out, that was it for me. I hung up retail and never looked back. WoW Classic is like home. My favorite expansion is the Burning Crusade. But then Blizzard managed to destroy any enthusiasm I had for the game by offering character boosts for TBC! Are you kidding me? Classic is now becoming Retail. I need a new or an old game to give me that connected feeling again. My man and I have not played a game since they announced TBC will have boosts. Those boosts will give decent gear, a mount, money, and other perks. We are gamers and WoW has always been the game we gone back too. What happens when that comfy game crushes joy for gaming.

Just play on a private server.







I thought Vanilla Classic was going to be the best place to play Vanilla, I subscribed for a couple of months, played probably one month and then closed my Blizzard account, it just isn't worth it. Private servers offer literally the same experience, but at least you don't waste good money on it.







If you want to play WoW so bad, find a good private server and play there, no sweat off your back. Forget Activision B, they are no longer Blizzard who made great games and cared to make their player base happy, they are just after the quickest, easiest money and all their developers that possess some signs of competence and talent are leaving them one by one, Activision B are left with clueless and incompetent interns and most of their gaming development is outsourced to games in Southeast Asia. Warcraft 3 Reforget was made by a Lemon Sky Studios, who are based in Malaysia.

what? people still play wow on private servers because of money? lol. private servers are not stable and you never know if they get closed or not or viped. I though people played wow on private servers because there was not classic on retail. I think blizzard themself don't know that private servers still exist. I will try to find the popular ones and report them and send it to blizzard to close them

yeah I'm not going to read all that. private servers are illegal and that's that. no need any paragraphs. I'll spam reports on those servers with my guild. as much as possible. just because. if you don't want retail you don't need wow at all. bottom line.

I imagine there's a few causes more worthy of people's efforts than Blizzard's bottom line.

Rungar

Iselin said:

I just re-installed Skyrim on Saturday, so yes I have those games.

I would put the Mass Effect games in that category too since I go back and replay them every couple of years.

if you havent tried it you can get special edition enderal now ( a skyrim based )complete game 

Po_gg

"Do you have games installed or on tap to play at a moment's notice when a game or genre burn you out?"

I do, but no burnout for me, since I game hop

Rotate my main games, 1-2 months a time, mixed my secondary games inbetween when there's something fun there.

It's working for me so far - which means more than a decade now, actually.

I believe it depends on playstyle (so, subjective), for me the 1-2 months used the be the comfortable timeframe to spend in one game and could hop onto the next one with anticipation and not due to necessity and/or burnout.

Events used to be a nice guideline as well, currently I'm in CO chasing Foxbat, and I'm already building up the anticipation for the next hop - LotRO's Anniversary starts next week.